Introduction: Defining the Female Gothic / Diana Wallace and Andrew Smith --
Female Gothic and the institutionalisation of Gothic studies / Lauren Fitzgerald --
'The haunting idea': Female Gothic metaphors and feminist theory / Diana Wallace --
'Mother Radcliff': Ann Radcliffe and the Female Gothic / Robert Miles --
Disturbing the Female Gothic: an excavation of the Northanger novels / Angela Wright --
Bleeding nuns: a genealogy of the Female Gothic Grotesque / Allison Milbank --
From Bluebeard's bloody chamber to demonic stigmatic / Marie Mulvey-Roberts --
Keeping it in the family: incest and the Female Gothic plot in du Maurier and Murdoch / Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik --
'I don't want to be a [white] girl': gender, race and resistance in the Southern Gothic / Meredith Miller --
Children of the night: Shirley Jackson's domestic Female Gothic / Andrew Smith --
Others, monsters, ghosts: representations of the Female Gothic body in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Love / Anya Heise-von der Lippe --
'Unhomely moments': reading and writing nation in Welsh Female Gothic / Kirsti Bohata --
Monstrous regiments of women and brides of Frankenstein: gendered body politics in Scottish Female Gothic fiction / Carol Margaret Davison.

"This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor, motherhood and nationality - to open up new critical directions"--Provided by publisher.